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Top 8 Minority-focused venture capital firms based in Nigeria

RevenueBase identified 26 minority-focused venture capital firms headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026 and tracks 147 professional contacts across them, including 51 with verified work emails. Lagos is the largest hub.

This list covers minority-focused venture capital firms headquartered in Nigeria, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 14, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
26Companies
147Contacts tracked
51Verified emails
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The 8 largest minority-focused venture capital firms based in Nigeria

Ranked by team size
Top 8 of 26 minority-focused venture capital firms based in Nigeria, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to minority-focused venture capital firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceLekki Phase 1, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5036 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We focus on early-stage venture capital and digital transformation, and we believe in the power of technology to scale African businesses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2Partial evidenceLagos, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Resilience17 is a venture studio and early-stage VC fund backing ambitious African founders locally and globally.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
3Strong evidenceLagos, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-108 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Octerra Capital is a privately held investment fund focused on unlocking funding and growth opportunities for early stage startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4Partial evidenceAbuja & Kano, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-106 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Across Africa, women face systemic barriers to accessing startup capital, despite their proven ability to drive economic growth and community transformation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
5Indirect evidenceVictoria Island, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are on a mission to back extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa, solving important problems in large markets.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
6Strong evidenceLekki, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-102 contacts →

Strong evidence

Venture Capital Firm with a focus on early-stage social and socioeconomic impact companies/startups across Africa and African(s) entrepreneurs in the diaspora.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7Partial evidencePort Harcourt, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Backing Africa's experienced founders building market & opportunity-creating' ventures in frontier cities”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8Partial evidenceLagos, NigeriaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Women's Enterprise Acceleration Vehicle (WEAV Capital) is a mission-driven investment and advisory firm providing seed and early stage funding, access to networks, and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

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Minority-focused venture capital firms based in Nigeria at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026
34.7%Verified-email coverage
5.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
46.2%Largest-city concentration · Lagos
Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
18
11-50
8

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Nigeria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Nigeria, over 26 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among minority-focused venture capital firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Nigeria whose own description of what they do matches “minority-focused venture capital firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names minority-focused venture capital firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among minority-focused venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Nigeria are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 51 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names minority-focused venture capital firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many minority-focused venture capital firms are there based in Nigeria?

RevenueBase identified 26 minority-focused venture capital firms headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Trium Limited, headquartered in Nigeria, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most minority-focused venture capital firms?

Lagos leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Ikoyi Lagos (2) and Port Harcourt (2).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 51 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 26 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.